Nguyen Tan Dung Quotes

My father is American and deserted the Vietnam War.

My father was a Vietnam vet, and he was Green Beret.

At 19, I joined the Air Force during the Vietnam War.

As you know, several times, McCain talked about serving his country in Vietnam, which is a nice change after 16 years and two presidents who could never quite explain how they got out of serving their country in Vietnam.

Rank and file Democrats are very patriotic. They love this country and support the military.

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

Those who liberated the South from Israel must show allegiance to Lebanon.

I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they gave me about the war. I decided I needed to return to my country and join with them - active duty soldiers and Vietnam Veterans in particular - to try and end the war.

From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.

For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.

I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character.

I'm a Vietnam veteran. I was here when there was no public support, not just for the effort in Vietnam, for the mission in Vietnam, but for our men and women in uniform.

I've never boxed in my life, never been in a military base in my life, never grew up with anyone in the military.

Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's.

My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.

We won't just automatically click our heels and follow the Americans.

I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years.

I carry the memories of the ghosts of a place called Vietnam - the people of Vietnam, my fellow soldiers.

I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.

America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.

The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.

I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.

People who live in glass dude ranches should not question the patriotism of real soldiers who fought and bled for this country on a real battlefield.

Fellow citizens: The hour to try your souls and to redeem your pledges has arrived. Stand together in face of the brutal, cowardly enemies of your race! Bring English tyranny to its knees. Pay no rent under any pretext! The government, with its bayonets, will learn in a single Winter how powerless are armed forces against the will of a united determined, and self-reliant nation.

… she [America] goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication